A Portland, Oregon, nonprofit has launched a “Reparations Happy Hour” that offers black, brown and indigenous attendees $10 at the door — with the cash primarily coming from white donors, organizers said.
The first happy hour on Monday evening drew 40 black, brown and indigenous locals to the bar Backyard Social, where organizers gave out a corresponding $400, according to Cameron Whitten, the 27-year-old who hosted the event through the nonprofit Brown Hope.
“If folks say they want diversity in this community, they need to invest in it,” Whitten said. “These spaces are critical, and these spaces need to be paid for by white people.”
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Portland is one of the whitest major cities in the U.S. (78 percent of the population is white, according to Census data), and it has a history of strained race relations. That past was thrust into the national spotlight last May when a man fatally stabbed two people on a Portland train after yelling racist, anti-Muslim slurs at two women.
Portland’s mayor has made fixing race relations a priority — so much so that his job posting for a new police chief explicitly sought a candidate to improve minority relations in light of what he described as a history of “systemic racism,” the Los Angeles Times reports.
Whitten said he expects the “Reparations Happy Hours” to be monthly. About seven white volunteers helped with the event — and were there in part to make sure alt-right or racist demonstrators didn’t disrupt the happy hour, Whitten said.
But why reparations, and why a happy hour?
Whitten characterized reparations as a “cash benefit for historically marginalized people” — whether that marginalization came through slavery, colonialism, genocide, Jim Crow-era policies or something else.
“The idea of reparations is: How do we recognize pain, harm and injustice, and provide an outlet for healing?” Whitten asked. “How did we recognize the emergency of inequality?”
Whitten said the happy hour is not just about the cash, though. He said the event can help create “a pipeline into leadership” for black, brown and indigenous people trying to gain real power and sway in a white-dominated progressive and political scene.
“I’ve seen daily and monthly what it’s like to live in a place like Oregon, which has a spectacular history of creating policies to be a white, Bohemian utopia,” Whitten said. “If folks are saying they want black, brown and indigenous people here, we’re calling on them to pay for that to happen.”
About $5,000 has been donated so far to Brown Hope, the group hosting the events, Whitten estimated. He also said more than 100 people (mostly white) have donated to the group. There was a black woman at the event Monday who donated $500, Whitten said — essentially underwriting the entire $400 spent on “reparations” that day.
Reaction on social media was largely positive, though one Twitter user wrote: “Only in Portland.” Another Twitter user suggested those interested in tackling inequality do “something that’ll make a meaningful difference” like “addressing inequalities in pay, housing and education.”
What in special hell… Reparations Happy Hour? Really?? How about addressing inequalities in pay, housing and education? You know, something that'll make a meaningful difference. How about stop shooting/arresting us for just going about our business trying to live our best life? https://t.co/kU9RXDbmJE
— Kaydee Jay (@Keedinah) May 23, 2018
But Whitten said a happy hour and those goals aren’t mutually exclusive, and that it’s important to create spaces that empower black, brown and indigenous people — particularly in Oregon.
“We’re creating a platform to make sure our leadership is being seen and honored,” Whitten said. “This isn’t just, ‘We’re here to socialize.’ We’re here to do the work. In a place like Portland, where our community is so fractured … our first step is to bring us back together, and then from there organize and mobilize to create policies to create justice in our communities.”
The next “Reparations Happy Hour” will be at Back to Eden Bakery, which Whitten said recently had an incident similar to last month’s incident at a Philadelphia Starbucks, when two black men were kicked out.
Reparations be damned. If you want to feel “white guilt” go ahead, you are just a tool of the libtards. It’s stupid, you never owned a slave or have been one, unless maybe you worked for Starfucks. You want to commit suicide have at it, one less libtard fool to deal with.
Reparations? No. Repatriation? Yes.
Here, Here. I second that motion.
Niggers are the gift that keeps giving.
If they would stop complaining about racism – then they would have to be responsible for their own failures.
I hope some horrible person doesn’t pass out free alcohol, and then have them sign the ‘repatriation’ contract, which includes a clause renouncing their US citizenship.
That would be terrible.
Committing suicide, slowly.
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These whites are all jews anyway. It will be fun to watch when SHTF. A bunch of jews and blacks “getting along” in US American cities.
Damn, where my reparations, Admin?
EC
If I ever make it out to SoCal, I’d buy you lunch. Never been south of Monterrey in CA, though.
We are paying for it anyway, like it or not… at gunpoint.
“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
What!!! That will be the day I give any more of my hard earned fiat to Niggers and Sub-human mud people. How insane is this country have to get before this S**t stops? Oh and F**K Jahnayah. Wah Wah Wah Thats all these niggers do is cry.
The ebonics aren’t quite correct. “Y’all gotts mo a dem reprations?” There, fixed it for you.
And this is why I use the nickname I do on this site.
Over a beer or three several Sundays ago in a local watering hole, one of the TVs had a soccer game on from Portland. Huge banner said “Anti-Racism Soccer Club”. WTF?????
Maybe Mr Mayor sanctioned it…
They forgot about free shit for gays and trannies. Fucken bigots.
Try becoming trans-racial.
FWIW 14th Amendment Section 4 … seems to say that payment of reparations is “illegal and void” along w/ other things …
4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Just remembered and I have to laugh…….if you’d told me 30 or 40 years ago that a white wioman would be posing as a nigger so she could head up a local chapter of the naacp, I wouldn’t have even been able to process what you’d said to me.
Welcome to clown world.
Diversity is a weapon against whites.
Great video by a beautiful white woman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYag1lOZpLw&t=21s
That’s exactly how it should be. If brain damaged whitey’s want to give their own money away……..knock yourself out. That is their right.
Reparations = Rape a nation. —-Michael Savage……who also said liberalism is a mental disorder. 🙂
“What fresh hell is this?” Dorothy Parker upon hearing a knock on her door.
So these organizers gave away $400 to the beggar blacks in the name of reparations and were given $500 by a black woman? The water in Portland has to be run off from a Monsanto plant.
Glad they were stupid enough to advertise this. Hopefully white people will have the brains to avoid the negroid mosh pit until the place goes under.
I was thinking that I wouldn’t want to be whitey when whitey runs out of $10 bills! Da feral kneegrows won’t be wantin’ to hear no bullshit like that!
Why should we pay reparations? The slaves were legal property and the black chiefs who sold them off in Africa were all paid fair and square. If they want reparations, let’s pass the buck on to Africa. I’m sure they’ll get a lot when they take the show on the road over there.
If 10 bucks is all they need to be repaired, I guess it wasn’t much of an outrage. I got some coupons for free cheeseburgers at Wendy’s. That’s gotta make up for at least a few former farm implements.
A few beers later, upon reflection, doesn’t this actually sort of cheapen their whole case? If you were willing to believe you were a victim of inter-generational oppression that had to be righted, would you actually believe you were being made whole with $10 and some drinks? These chumps are chumps. They’re making absolute asses of themselves. White libtards are actually sort of buying them and burying their personal guilt for a song. Virtue Signalling is for tardz. I bet holocaust activists wouldn’t accept 10 Euros from a German. They set their sights waaaaaaay higher.
Blacks were sold for practically nuthin’ and they’re still on sale today for same.
Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last-no wait, we’re dirt-cheap!
Back to my regularly scheduled beer which was already in progress. Tonight, fittingly, it is Apocalypse IPA.
If you’re black and reading this, think about policing your own community, because this reparations shit is really you being on sale all over again.
Any word if the bartenders/staff got tips?
libs don’t actually tend to tip. Repubes actually are more statistically likely to tip, Yankee Repube males even more so. They also tend to create less of a mess wherever they gather.